IL HB4941

Health care professionals and providers must be given at least 30 days to review contracts offered by insurers, HMOs, IPAs, or physician hospital organizations before signing.

Insurers and health plans must provide contract-related information within 35 days of written request, including specialty-specific fee schedule samples (based on top 50 volume codes), network provider manuals, and capitation schedules if applicable.

Beginning January 1, 2023, insurers must provide at least 60 days advance notice before implementing nonroutine fee schedule changes, and this right to advance notice cannot be waived by health care providers.

Fee schedules, capitation schedules, and network manuals are protected as trade secrets under the Illinois Trade Secrets Act and can only be disclosed on a need-to-know basis or by valid court order.

Upon contract termination and patient request, health care providers must transfer copies of patient medical records, with copying costs assigned per the contract terms.